Olho Furta-Cor ("Iridescent Eye") is the seventeenth studio album by Brazilian rock band Titãs, released on 2 September 2022 via Midas Music.
[9] Before Olho Furta-Cor, the last studio album with original materia released by the band had been the rock opera Doze Flores Amarelas,[7] which was supported with a limited tour due to the high costs of bringing the project onto the stage.
[11][12] Once he resumed activities, the band entered the studio to record Titãs Trio Acústico, which was released in three parts and contained re-recordings of old songs[13] and was followed by an unplugged tour throughout Brazil in 2019–2022.
We comment several facts that have been going on lately, such as this isolation in the pandemic, the difficult political moment, the polarization in Brazil and the world… I believe all these topics are present in the album and some other lighter ones, too".
"[4] The title of the album is taken off a verse of the song "São Paulo 3", composed by Britto with words from a poem by Haroldo de Campos[6][8][16][15] which was introduced to the group by theater director Felipe Hirsch.
[19] "Como é Bom Ser Simples" (written by Mello, his son Bento and Hugo Possolo[8]) speaks about "detachment" and "attempts to unlink from all these threats, from these disorders which surround us, from the political instability, from the pandemic while being zen, without refraining from touching spicy subjects".
[8][18] The lyrics further establish parallels between Andy Warhol and Mestre Vitalino; Jackson do Pandeiro and Chuck Berry; Bob Dylan and Patativa do Assaré; Bill Haley and Zé do Fole; Johnny Cash and Catulo da Paixão Cearense; and Mark Twain and Ariano Suassuna.
Initially, the lyrics were from the perspective of a father inviting his daughter to come out and see the world, but he felt this wouldn't relate to teenagers going through this, so he inverted it and had the it follow an isolated person beginning an introspective process.
[20] "Por Galettas" has Spanish lyrics and was written by Britto about accusations of sexual abuse by peace-keeping UN forces in Haiti, a topic which came to his attention in an article by El País.